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• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, April 3, 2026 April 3, 2026
  Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]
• Data center ban on the Ohio ballot? Petitioners get approval to start gathering signatures April 3, 2026
  Ohio Residents for Responsible Development can start collecting signatures to get a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent new, large data centers in Ohio on the November ballot.  The Ohio Ballot Board on Thursday unanimously certified the proposed amendment that would prohibit the construction of data centers with a peak load of more than 25 megawatts […]
• Ohio State investigating Epstein payments to gynecologist April 3, 2026
  An Ohio State spokesman last week confirmed that the university is investigating an arrangement 20 years ago in which sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein paid a prominent gynecologist $100,000 a year. But the university declined to comment further. And the gynecologist, Mark B. Landon, didn’t comment beyond his original statement denying any knowledge of Epstein’s illegal […]
• ‘Like The Walking Dead’: Smuggled drugs fuel chaos inside Ohio prisons April 3, 2026
  This story was produced in collaboration by The Marshall Project – Cleveland, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and Canton Repository. Jayson Murphy lit the speck of paper and held the smoke in his lungs as long as he could. His cellmate, John Jenkins, got the drug-soaked scrap from another incarcerated man […]
• Turning Ohio’s economic development around: What can be done April 3, 2026
  American communities have always competed for economic advantage. In the 19th century, St. Louis and Chicago competed to attract the transcontinental rail line: Chicago won, and it made a lasting difference. Two centuries later, in an era of global markets, capital consolidation, and accelerating technological change, public investment in economic development has grown, but the […]
• Catching Our Eye News Roundup, April 2, 2026 April 2, 2026
  Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our free daily newsletter to get all the Ohio news you need to know […]